My wife has celiacs and a dairy allergy, so she is one of the rare people that actually can make use of these things, but I get you. I almost feels lazy, like they were just trying to combine all food issues into a single product to appeal to as many people as possible, while forgetting to make the food taste good.

when they try to lump all the restrictions into a single product it is almost always disgusting.

I can only imagine. I haven't gone that deep down the gluten free rabbit hole, but it seemed bleak indeed.

Out of curiosity, do you use a lot of xanthan as a celiac? Seemingly that is the only gluten alternative, but it looked a bit pricey for my testing, so I omitted it.

Yeah, I run into this. One vegan daughter, one girlfriend -of another daughter who has a nut allergy. It is often a one or the other choice, I have to warn one of them not to eat something. It is hard to juggle both those restrictions.